What motivates people to organize communal living themselves? What ideals are behind it, how do they finance themselves, and how does life in a community work? Based on six self-managed residential buildings in Austria from the past 40 years, the documentary film "Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind" (The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of) sets out to find answers. Filmmakers Lotte Schreiber and Michael Rieper tell these six stories by staying very close to the protagonists.

Every day, Paris’ six railway stations welcome over 3,000 trains and more than a million travelers c...

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end o...

Mozambique 1974 - the European name of the capital Lourenço Marques was deleted and replaced by Mapu...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his l...

Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to destroy a b...

Documentary glimpses from Alt & Neu (Teuchtler) record store, where love for cinema and music unite ...

A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas and wester...

Brazilian architecture in the 20th century influenced generations of architects worldwide. But there...

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

Documentary about Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi made for the BBC series "Visions of Space".
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...

Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in...

No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master ...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...